Would the real ToT please stand up

[crabdog]

I've been using ToT Fiber2U for about a year now. It has been very reliable and consistent albeit not very fast. The international routing has always been pretty terrible though. For that reason I also have TRUE adsl for my online gaming. In the past ping to my Australian server was 280 with ToT and 150 with TRUE.

A couple weeks ago I tested the ping on ToT and to my surprise it was sitting at 150 and has been the same since then. On top of that downloads have been blazingly fast eg: 400MB torrents in around 3 minutes. Regular downloads have also been very good. This is at anytime day or night.

I'm not sure what has changed but I LIKE IT! I won't cancel my TRUE connection just yet but if things stay as they are I will drop it fairly soon. I really hope that the changes are here to stay.

[KhunBENQ]

Being on ToT fibre and just tried immi.gov.au [164.97.249.33] and its 270 ms.

So no reason for euphoria here.

[crabdog]

Just out of curiosity what do you get here [119.15.96.156]?

Nevermind. I just tried immi.gov.au [164.97.249.33] and got 165. Must be a location thing. I'm in Nonthaburi btw.

Edited April 16, 2015 by crabdog

[bob4you]

I have Sophon fiber. Just tested mine and got 12 ms, 10.8 download and 1.0 up load.

[crabdog]

I have Sophon fiber. Just tested mine and got 12 ms, 10.8 download and 1.0 up load.

Did you do some kind of speedtest? Because they won't give you accurate speeds for anything outside of Thailand, unless you go to a proper test site like http://testmy.net/

[Crossy]

Just out of interest I'm on ToT fibre in Pathum Thani, get 171ms to 164.97.249.33

testy.net gives me 15.7Mbps down 3Mbps up to Dallas. Tot 25/3 fibre

[KhunBENQ]

Just out of curiosity what do you get here [119.15.96.156]?

Nevermind. I just tried immi.gov.au [164.97.249.33] and got 165. Must be a location thing. I'm in Nonthaburi btw.

135 ms on avarage. That is close to your result.

Half the time of immi.gov.au [164.97.249.33].

Obviously it is all about the route(rs) on the way.

One seems to go over Hongkong (lot of time lost in Australia), the other straight from Singapore to Perth.

See hops 8 or 9 where the ping jumps to three digits numbers.

Such numbers can change from day to day. As a private user you will not get a garantuee for the shortest route.

(Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung = request timeout)

heavy.ozfortress.com [119.15.96.156]

1 6 ms 9 ms 5 ms ADSL [192.168.1.1]

2 3 ms 3 ms 4 ms xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

3 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

4 12 ms 14 ms 11 ms gig-2-5.cwt-dist-01.totisp.net [203.113.24.93]

5 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms hundred-gi-0-6-0-1.cwt-gw-01.totisp.net [203.114.118.134]

6 15 ms 25 ms 18 ms HUN-gi-0-5-0-1.cwt-core-01.totiig.net [180.180.255.61]

7 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms ten-gi-0-6-0-3.knl-core-01.totiig.net [180.180.255.50]

8 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms ten-gi.totiig.net [180.180.255.118]

9 41 ms 39 ms 40 ms p9326.sgw.equinix.com [202.79.197.74]

10 136 ms 135 ms 135 ms ten-0-2-1-3.cor01.sin01.sin.VOCUS.net [114.31.206.164]

11 137 ms 134 ms 135 ms so-0-7-0-0.cor01.per02.wa.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.206.140]

12 139 ms 138 ms 140 ms ten-0-1-0-1.cor02.per02.wa.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.206.81]

13 131 ms 131 ms 131 ms ten-0-1-0-0.cor01.adl01.sa.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.198.34]

14 139 ms 139 ms 137 ms ten-0-1-0-1.cor01.mel11.vic.vocus.net.au [114.31.198.45]

15 137 ms 139 ms 148 ms ten-0-1-0-0.cor01.cbr01.act.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.204.112]

16 140 ms 158 ms 138 ms ge-0-2-1.bdr02.cbr01.act.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.204.103]

17 279 ms 128 ms 130 ms as38826.cust.bdr02.cbr01.act.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.205.46]

18 200 ms 129 ms 128 ms ge0-0.sw1.cbr.infinite.net.au [119.15.111.62]

19 132 ms 132 ms 133 ms heavy.ozfortress.com [119.15.96.156]

www.immi.gov.au [164.97.249.33]

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms ADSL [192.168.1.1]

2 5 ms 6 ms 2 ms xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

3 9 ms 3 ms 12 ms xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

4 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms ten-gi-7-4.kkm-dist-01.totisp.net [203.113.24.217]

5 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms hundred-gi-0-6-0-1.kkm-gw-01.totisp.net [203.114.118.34]

6 11 ms 12 ms 12 ms HUN-gi-0-4-0-0.kkm-core-01.totiig.net [203.190.251.137]

7 56 ms 46 ms 46 ms ten-gi-0-6-0-1.knl-core-01.totiig.net [180.180.249.114]

8 120 ms 43 ms 43 ms po-0-1-5-0.sg-pop.totiig.net [180.180.255.150]

9 44 ms 45 ms 44 ms p4739.sgw.equinix.com [202.79.197.45]

10 158 ms 158 ms 159 ms te0-0-0-2.br1.hkg2.on.ii.net [150.101.33.223]

11 161 ms 188 ms 182 ms xe-1-0-1.br1.syd4.on.ii.net [150.101.33.198]

12 211 ms 161 ms 161 ms ae2.cr2.cbr2.on.ii.net [150.101.33.23]

13 175 ms 164 ms 161 ms transact-cbr2-gw.on.ii.net [150.101.33.63]

14 160 ms 161 ms 208 ms static-144-32.transact.net.au [202.55.144.32]

15 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.

16 280 ms 279 ms 279 ms 164.97.245.28

17 285 ms 283 ms 283 ms share-outbound.immi.gov.au [164.97.245.129]

18 284 ms 284 ms 287 ms www.immi.gov.au [164.97.249.33]

Edited April 17, 2015 by KhunBENQ

[billd766]

I have Sophon fiber. Just tested mine and got 12 ms, 10.8 download and 1.0 up load.

Did you do some kind of speedtest? Because they won't give you accurate speeds for anything outside of Thailand, unless you go to a proper test site like http://testmy.net/

I live in rural Thailand using a TOT WiNet link.

I pay for 10mB download and 1 mB upload

doc 1 is a screenshot using ADSL Speed test to Hong Kong

doc 2 is the same test using your link http://testmy.net/ to Hong Kong

Doc1.doc

Doc2.doc

[Shaunduhpostman]

Sounds like my experience. It is as though by running a speedtest you get the TOT servers to wake up and actually function. Discovered this trick purely by accident. It seems to solve all our internet connection problems, no more trauma calling them everyday for a week, once a month, before anything is done. No more putting up with listening to their lazy lies and promises they have no intention of keeping. A total nightmare is now over. Run the speedtest and bingo back to normal.

[JAS21]

Sounds like my experience. It is as though by running a speedtest you get the TOT servers to wake up and actually function. Discovered this trick purely by accident. It seems to solve all our internet connection problems, no more trauma calling them everyday for a week, once a month, before anything is done. No more putting up with listening to their lazy lies and promises they have no intention of keeping. A total nightmare is now over. Run the speedtest and bingo back to normal.

Yes when my TOT internet is slow I also do a speed test to TOT and it speeds up as if by magic. Been doing it for well over a year now.

[billd766]

My ToT linked failed this morning and when I logged onto their site I could see that the WiNet link was down. I left it until about 12.45 and called the local guys up in Khampaeng Phet.

I gave them all the info details and he said he would call me back.

5 minutes later he called me back and said the link was back up, and it was.

Good friendly helpful service from a guy who can speak a fair bit of English and I said thank you for your help.

[crabdog]

About a week ago my ToT was down when I got up in the morning. I left it because I had to go to work anyway. When I got home in the afternoon it was still down so my wife called support. They told us to wait 15 minutes then restart the router. Did just that and all was working again.

[recom273]

Did you try and contact ToT and get the routing changed, were you connecting to a fixed IP ?

I used to have a seedbox in Europe, 3BB were great when it came to analysing the TRACERT and reducing the number of hops.

[nikster]

Sounds like my experience. It is as though by running a speedtest you get the TOT servers to wake up and actually function. Discovered this trick purely by accident. It seems to solve all our internet connection problems, no more trauma calling them everyday for a week, once a month, before anything is done. No more putting up with listening to their lazy lies and promises they have no intention of keeping. A total nightmare is now over. Run the speedtest and bingo back to normal.

Yes when my TOT internet is slow I also do a speed test to TOT and it speeds up as if by magic. Been doing it for well over a year now.

LOL that's unbelievable. So they give you a fast pass when you access speedtest? Only TOT could come up with something as dumb as that. I will use that trick from now on.